24 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh

John Chesser, 1870-80; some executed by Peddie & Kinnear. 3-storey with basement 2-bay terraced townhouses with 2-storey and basement canted bays and advanced 5-bay block (No 28) forming corner with 1 Lansdowne Crescent (see separate list description). Polished, channelled sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; droved at basement. Banded cill course to ground and 1st floor windows; string course and brackets to cornice. Elaborately consoled cornice to doorpieces, with cross-pattern ironwork balcony to 1st floor window above; canted cross-pattern ironwork balcony to 2nd floor window above canted bays; moulded margins, with bracketed block cills at 2nd floor.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 16-26: 12-bay; door to centre at basement with small window to right beneath oversailing platt; window to central face of canted bay at left (some bays have additional lights); ashlar steps and entrance platt to panelled timber door with large rectangular fanlight to doorpiece to bay to right at ground of each house; single window to 1st and 2nd floors above; lights to each face of canted bay at ground and 1st floors, bay to left; tripartite window to bay to left at 2nd floor. Additional bay to right of entrance to No 26, comprising window at each floor; basement door to No 26 beneath platt, with small light to left. No 28 (corner block): advanced, 5-bay; boarded door with boarded fanlight at bay to outer left beneath entrance platt, with flanking window at right; window to 4 remaining bays at basement; panelled timber door with fanlight set in plain moulded margin at bay to outer left at ground; regular fenestration to remaining bays at ground and to upper floors.

2- and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate roof; coped mutual sandstone ashlar stacks (rendered stack at left of No 28), with moulded cylindrical cans, predominantly tall; cast-iron rainwater goods.

RAILINGS: fleur-de-lys railings to entrance platts and, set in coping, to street; plain railings to basement steps.